About the Author | Jeanne Allen is Associate Professor and Higher Degree Research Coordinator in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University. Her research expertise is in teacher education, standardised educational contexts, teacher identity, and student engagement and retention. Jeanne was an invited contributor to the prestigious Sage Handbook of Research on Teacher Education and she was named national leading researcher in the field of Teaching and Teacher Education by Australia's League of Scholars in 20188. Her most recent books are Young Adolescent Engagement in Learning: Supporting Students through Structure and Community (2019) and Teachers as Professional Learners: Contextualising Identity across Policy and Practice (2021). She is also immediate past co-editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education.Simone White is Professor of Education in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice at the Queensland University of Technology. She previously held the Chair of Teacher Education at Monash University and led the Academic Community for the Teacher Education, Arts, Language and Professional Learning Group. She is a Past President of the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA). Simone recently led an OLT-funded project titled 'Engaging and partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and community to improve student outcomes'. Simone sits on the Editorial Board of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. |